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Unit 9: Tenses

Questions (interrogative sentences): notes
auxiliary verb + subject + auxiliary verb + verb + ing + ?

will I/you/we etc. be dancing/taking
Negative sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + verb + ing
I/you/we etc. won’t be trying/taking

9.3.3 future Perfect tense

We use this tense to express an action that will be finished before some point in the future.

Example: 1. He will have retired by the end of the year.
2. Will he have retired by the end of the year?
3. He wouldn’t have retired by the end of the year.
Form: Positive sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + Past participle

I/a dog etc. will have gone, seen, etc.
Questions (interrogative sentences):
auxiliary verb + subject + auxiliary verb + Past participle + ?
will I/a boy etc. have gone, seen, etc.
Negative sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + Past participle
I/a boy etc. won’t have gone, seen, etc.

9.3.4 future Perfect continuous tense

We use this tense to express actions that will be happening at a definite moment in the future.

Example: 1. We will have been driving for three hours by the time we get to our office
today.
2. She will not have been cooking the lunch for three hours by the end of
October.

Form: Positive sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + Present participle
I/a boy etc. will have been going, doing (verb + ing)
Negative sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + Present participle
I/a boy etc. won’t have been going, doing (verb + ing)
Questions (interrogative sentences):
auxiliary verb + subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + Present participle + ?
Will I/a boy etc. have been going, doing (verb + ing)

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